Mareike Heinritz got the degree of a Magistra Artium in Human Studies (Classical Archaeology and Indology) in 2005 at the University of Leipzig. She wrote her Magister thesis „Der Niobidenmythos als Thema römischer Sarkophage im Bosporanischen Reich” (in English: “The Myth of the Niobids as a subject on Roman sarcophagi in the Bosporan Kingdom“) in Classical Archaeology.

Currently, Mareike Heinritz works on her PhD dissertation in Classical Archaeology with the provisional title “Between polis and indigenous area – forms of marking space, demarcation and communication in contact situations between Greek colonies and indigenous tribes” at the Freie Universität Berlin.